Rainbow Duckling
I feel another Personal of the Day coming on, but until then, here’s what’s been going on:
- Met up with girlfriends and a whole lot of unknown hipsters at a swanky new Silverlake bar. We sipped free cocktails underneath gorgeous chandeliers and talked of one friend’s newly purchased condo and the other’s sore nipples (damn you PMS!).
- Enjoyed wine, potato chips and board games at an intimate party hosted by a lawyer friend who recently spent a month volunteering in Africa. There was some confusion over whether people were going into the bathroom to “take a wee” or “smoke weed.” (Answer: both.)
- Reread one of my favorite books from high school: A Separate Peace.
- Went to the race track with ST. Chatted with a chunky middle-aged black man who told us his betting strategy. He said he dreams of having enough money to buy his own race horses. He would buy two and name one Hilary and the other Obama. ST said something that disappointed me and I cried into my Bloody Mary.
- Attended a 1,000-person food and wine tasting festival and then spent the next two days responding to customer complaints about it, since my company sold half the tickets.
- Went running and saw a modelesque blonde woman carrying two tiny puppies--one under each arm, like a couple of packages.
- Had beer and hours of great conversation with a close friend, who told me about an attempted threesome adventure gone comically awry.
- Gathered with a group of friends to watch our friends’ band play on the Sunset Strip. Dinner and wine with two girlfriends before the show, bemoaning broken hearts and tragic romances. A car ride down Sunset with two beautiful girls, stirring up memories of the drive through Hollywood to the dance clubs 15 years ago with my college roommates, singing along to the radio and bubbling with hope about the boys we would meet.
- Read a great book about the brain and how we make decisions.
- Watched a fascinating interview with Jeffrey Dahmer.
Comments